Need strategy help on eating 72 oz. steak in Amarillo Texas

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[JusPasenThru]

Gee, a few weeks ago there were threads on FR about obesity and how we are all innocent victims and how its not our fault we're all 40% over ideal body weight. This crap makes about as much sense as having a chugging contest at an AA meeting.

[strela]

I drove by this place yesterday and have resolved to accompish this feat on April 12th, 2004 (My birthday). I need some strategy help. Which course do you eat first? How to prepare yourself in the weeks and days leading up to the event, etc.

I did it, back in 1989 (and have the certificate around here somewhere to prove it).

My tips:

- Eat little or nothing the week before you go.

- Drink only from one small glass of tea with no ice during the meal - just enough liquid to keep you from choking if a piece of meat gets stuck in your throat.

- Don't add any extra butter, sour cream, or chives to the baked potato. (You have to eat all the trimmings too).

- Don't try to eat the whole thing in the first 10 minutes. You get an hour to do it - use as much of the hour as you can.

- Eat the food that will pack most densely in your stomach first and leave the steak for last. (Cut-up pieces of steak take up a lot more room in your stomach, and if you eat it first, you'll feel fuller).

[alnitak]

Does it come with giant veg?

[Rodney King]

Want some of us freepers that will be in the area to come cheer you on?

Yeah, I'm not talking about doing this for a long time, but that would be great. I'll post a follow up when the time comes. Maybe we could make a fund raiser out of it where everyone who wins donates the 50 bucks to FR.

[ConservativeMan55]

Drink A LOT of WATER!!!!

[Atlas Sneezed]

The top sirloin cut gets dried out fast, so order it rare.

[Joe_October]

Eat the first 71 ounces quickly and savor the last ounce.

Sorry, Best I can do.

There's a place in Vegas and Salt Lake and a few other places called Leatherby's. They offer a sundae that if you can eat it they put your name on the wall. I've always wanted to do that.

On top of the shear bulk of it, you gotta' deal with hyperthermia. Ain't America Great!

[netmilsmom]

Along with heavy eating for the days before, drink a gallon of water each day. Try it in the biggest glasses you can find.

[PatrickHenry]

Well, if you can't throw up, will they let you take a sex break? That always increases the appetite.

[July 4th]

I think eat fast and order it rare are two good tips. It will be much easier to chew and swallow rare. And if you eat fast, your stomach won't know that it's getting full until it already is. I've read about people doing this once in a while, and I think the people who are good at it down the whole thing in 10 minutes.

[Rodney King]

Also, ask yourself WHY?

Why not? I used to do a lot of drinking and sailing, producing lots of memories. I live in Oklahoma now, so sailing is out, and I also don't drink much anymore. This is a nice wholesome way to do something productively stupid that I can be proud of and tell my grand kids about.

[gorush]

I did that once in Portland back in the '70's. I was in my early to mid twentys and logging for a living in northern Idaho. I ate a ton and worked hard and was on the verge of skinny. The 72 oz. steak was "a piece of cake". Easiest free dinner I ever et. :{)

[Rodney King]

Gee, a few weeks ago there were threads on FR about obesity and how we are all innocent victims and how its not our fault we're all 40% over ideal body weight. This crap makes about as much sense as having a chugging contest at an AA meeting.

Yeah, but I'm not fat. In fact, I could probably use 10 pounds.

[kipj]

Go out and rent "The Great Outdoors." John Candy will show you how to do it.

[alnitak]

Looks like I maxed that guy's site out in about 3 seconds :-)

You do realise that this thread has completely overshadowed my very worthy Gaddafi thread? *sigh* Such is modern life...so superficial :-)

[Rodney King]

Awesome! thanks. Had you ever eaten massive portions before? Did you practice in the weeks leading up to it?

[Rodney King]

Awesome! thanks. Had you ever eaten massive portions before? Did you practice in the weeks leading up to it?

[Southack]

Our Boy Scout troop stopped at the Big Texan on our way back from Philmont Scount Ranch.

We'd been eating a few survival foods and climbing mountains for our 90 mile, two week hike, so by the time we reached the Big Texan, we were about as humanly hungry as healthy adults could get.

I finished 36 ounces, and I'm a big guy.

The 72 ounce steak is just too much!

[Nachum]

There was an ice cream shop in the old Sorrento Hotel in Miami that had a sundae that looked like it had three gallons of ice cream in it. If you could eat the whole thing, they gave it to you free.

There were all sorts of celebrity photos on the wall of this place along with one of Frank Sinatra with the sundae in front of him and a spoon in his hand.

I was about 8 or 9 when I saw that place. Oh how I pined away for that sundae!

[RoseofTexas]

GOOD LUCK!! I witnessed a brave soul take on the mighty 72oz. steak there and FAILED! The food there is WONDERFUL and a great time was had by all watching this poor guy trying REAL hard to eat the WHOLE THING! And he wasn't a small dude either!